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Supporting Productive Discussion

Christine Murphy

Created on November 3, 2022

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Supporting Productive Discussion

Social Skills
Cognitive Skills
Use-of-Knowledge Skills
Resources to Scaffold Discussion for Students
Glossary of Terms
Questioning for Classroom Discussion by Jackie Acree Walsh & Beth Dankert Sattes

Glossary of Terms

Cognitive Skills

all spheres of knowledge

Creating

questioning

social skills

Listening

Dispositions

Collaborating

prior academic knowledge

speaking

Experiential knowledge

Connection Making

Text-based knoweldge

Use-of-knowledge skills

Questioning for Classroom Discussion by Jackie Acree Walsh & Beth Dankert Sattes

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Social Skills

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speaking

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Listening

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Collaborating

return to social skills

Speaking

Skills

  • Speaks clearly and loudly so that everyone can hear
  • Talks to classmates as well as the teacher
  • Contributes to the discussion
  • Expresses own ideas clearly
  • Paraphrases portions of text/information presented

+ dispositions

The Inquiry Project

Questioning for Classroom Discussion by Jackie Acree Walsh & Beth Dankert Sattes

return to social skills

Listening

Skills

  • Uses silence after a classmate stops speaking to think about what the speaker said
  • Asks questions to better understand the speaker's point of view
  • Accurately paraphrases what another student says
  • Looks at speaker and gives nonverbal cues that one is paying attention

+ dispositions

The Inquiry Project

Questioning for Classroom Discussion by Jackie Acree Walsh & Beth Dankert Sattes

return to social skills

Collaborating

Skills

  • "Piggybacks" and elaborates on classmates' comments
  • Actively seeks to include classmates who are not participating
  • Remains open to ideas that are different from one's own
  • Disagrees in a civil and repsectful manner

+ dispositions

The Inquiry Project

Questioning for Classroom Discussion by Jackie Acree Walsh & Beth Dankert Sattes

Cognitive Skills

+ Connection-Making

+ Questioning

+ Dispositions

+ Creating

Questioning for Classroom Discussion by Jackie Acree Walsh & Beth Dankert Sattes

The Inquiry Project

Cognitive Dispositions

return to cognitive skills

Perseverance or persistence

taking reasonable risks

flexibility in Thinking

reasonableness

reflectiveness

Questioning for Classroom Discussion by Jackie Acree Walsh & Beth Dankert Sattes

Use-of-Knowledge Skills

All Spheres of Knowledge

Text-Based Knowledge

Prior Academic Knowledge

Experiential Knowledge

+ dispositions

The Inquiry Project

Questioning for Classroom Discussion by Jackie Acree Walsh & Beth Dankert Sattes

Resources to Scaffold Discussion for Students

Stems and Prompts

Scaffolding Use-of-Knowledge Skills For Discussion

Scaffolding Collaborative Skills for Discussion

Talk Moves

Goals for Productive Discussions and Nine Talk Moves

Talk Moves for Students

The Inquiry Project

Questioning for Classroom Discussion by Jackie Acree Walsh & Beth Dankert Sattes